Exam season is upon us and we can almost sense the mounting pressure among those preparing to sit them. There will be caffeine-fuelled late nights, last-minute cramming and desperate attempts to consume anything that might boost cognition. In the past students might have stockpiled Haribo and Red Bull to see them through their panic-ridden revision, but as anxiety and stress about results have multiplied, so the strategies employed to ward off brain fog have become more refined.

Students are feeling the weight of expectation like never before. Research commissioned by Unihealth, the UK’s first health and wellbeing messaging platform for students, revealed that 82 per cent of those studying at UK universities suffer from stress and anxiety and Childline reported a 21 per cent rise…

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